Tape encryption not a security cure-allNovember 30, 2005
-- <B>November 30, 2005</B>—Thanks to a few high-profile incidents of lost backup tapes recently, data security has been boiled down to a simple solution by many vendors: tape encryption. However, the storage security problem can't be solved so easily. It's about the process...

Survey shows interest in NAS virtualizationNovember 29, 2005
-- <B>November 29, 2005</B>—A recent end-user survey conducted by Peripheral Concepts and Coughlin Associates, <I>2005 NAS and NAS Virtualization Report</I>, targeted IT organizations with at least one NAS system and a minimum of 1TB of raw disk storage. More than 2,000 qualified respondents answered a screening survey, and a selected population of 135 IT administrators and managers answered the full survey.

iSCSI products continue to trickle outNovember 25, 2005
-- <B>November 25, 2005</B>—Although a number of recent end-user surveys indicate steady, albeit slow, adoption of iSCSI-based IP SANs, there have been few iSCSI-related product introductions from the larger vendors over the last couple months. Not to worry: A number of smaller vendors are keeping the ball rolling with introductions ranging from chips and accelerators for OEMs and integrators to ready-to-run IP SANs for end users.

HDD distributors upbeat about Q1November 23, 2005
-- <B>November 23, 2005</B>—Robert W. Baird & Co.'s survey of 10 large distributors, representing a total of more than $2 billion in hard disk drive (HDD) revenues, reveals a generally upbeat environment going into the first quarter of next year.

BakBone acquires Constant DataNovember 17, 2005
-- <B>November 17, 2005</B>—BakBone Software this week announced that it has acquired data replication vendor Constant Data for $5.5 million. It is BakBone's first acquisition and is part of the company's move toward an Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy.

Product wrap-up from SuperComputing 2005November 16, 2005
-- <B>November 16, 2005</B>—We wrap up our coverage of this week's SuperComputing 2005 conference in Seattle, which had about 9,000 attendees, with a number of announcements related to InfiniBand and storage for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

Isilon accelerates clustered storageNovember 15, 2005
-- <B>November 15, 2005</B>—Isilon's announcements at this week's SuperComputing 2005 conference included a partnership with Microsoft on clustered computing and clustered storage, as well as an acceleration product for clustered storage.

Archivas Digital ArchivingNovember 15, 2005
-- "Active archive" is a bit of an oxymoron, but it makes perfect sense for this category of storage.

InfiniBand makes a comeback at SuperComputing showNovember 14, 2005
-- <B>November 14, 2005</B>—SuperComputing 2005, an international conference on high-performance computing (HPC), networking, and storage, convened this week in Seattle under the theme "Gateway to Discovery." Attendees in research, education, government, and commerce who have asked for native InfiniBand in their storage products will discover that some vendors have been listening.

TIP survey: ILM becomes #1 management priorityNovember 11, 2005
-- <B>November 11, 2005</B>— According to a recent end-user survey conducted by TheInfoPro research firm ("Wave 6" of TIP's semi-annual surveys), information lifecycle management (ILM) is now ranked as the top storage management priority for high-end enterprises. However, managing ILM architectures has simultaneously become one of the top pain points for storage professionals.

IBM continues NetApp rolloutNovember 9, 2005
-- <B>November 9, 2005</B>—IBM this week announced the System Storage N5000 series of NAS appliances targeted at the midrange market. The N5200 and N5500 represent the second phase of IBM's staged rollout of Network Appliance's product line.

CommVault adds data-recovery moduleNovember 7, 2005
-- <B>November 7, 2005</B>—Tomorrow, CommVault will make the first of three major announcements this quarter around its QiNetix data management suite. The first announcement introduces ContinuousDataReplicator (CDR), a data-recovery software module built on the QiNetix platform. CDR protects data located at remote offices and also between data centers.

HP closes AppIQ acquisitionNovember 2, 2005
-- <B>November 2, 2005</B>—Hewlett-Packard has completed its acquisition of AppIQ and this week began shipping a new version of its Storage Essentials management application based on AppIQ technology.

SAS-SATA rollouts accelerateNovember 1, 2005
-- Adapters, controllers, and subsystems based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface-the successor to the venerable parallel SCSI interface-are rolling out in production volumes, and SAS-based servers are available from vendors such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

SAN management merging with SRMNovember 1, 2005
-- The goal is to get rid of Visio, Excel, pencils, and erasers and to automate the process of managing storage networks.

Removable disk cartridges aimed at tapeNovember 1, 2005
-- Disk-based backup has quickly found its way into the storage plans of many organizations, but tape lives on for many reasons: It&rsquo;s removable and inexpensive and has a shelf life that meets long-term archival requirements.

Sun sketches post-acquisition strategyNovember 1, 2005
-- Two months after it closed the $4.1 billion acquisition of StorageTek, Sun Microsystems is hinting at how it plans to become a major player in the storage industry.

IBM updates SVC, ships virtual tapeNovember 1, 2005
-- IBM recently announced a series of storage and server virtualization products, including the eighth release of its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) virtualization appliance with a new set of replication services for heterogeneous disk arrays.

EMC &lsquo;validates&rsquo; CDPNovember 1, 2005
-- At the Storage Networking World conference last month, EMC introduced its information protection strategy with three products that form the company&rsquo;s new recovery management software portfolio.

HP acquires AppIQ, PeregrineNovember 1, 2005
-- Hewlett-Packard recently completed its acquisition of AppIQ, a developer of SAN management and storage resource management (SRM) software with a focus on the SMI-S management standard.

Is CDP hot, or not?November 1, 2005
-- Over the last year more than a dozen start-ups have climbed into the so-called continuous data protection (CDP) market, and the last few months saw the entry of heavyweights such as Microsoft, IBM, Symantec and, most recently, EMC (see &ldquo;EMC &lsquo;validates&rsquo; CDP,&rdquo; on the cover).

Microsoft outlines future storage plansNovember 1, 2005
-- On the heels of releasing its System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) software, Microsoft has recently been hinting at its storage product plans through 2007, including a new beta release of the Windows Storage Server 2003 operating system and a line of appliances aimed at remote offices.